Solid Waste Disposal Act

Solid Waste Disposal Act, 1965 Modern sohd-waste legislation dates from 196.5, when the Sohd Waste Disposal Act, Title II of Public Law 88-272, was enacted by Congress. Tbe principal intent of this act was to promote the demonstration, construction, and apphcation... 

Resource Recovery Act, 1970 The Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965 was amended by Public Law 95-512, the Resources Recovery Ac4 of 1970. This act directed that the emphasis of the national solid-waste-management program should be shitted from disposal as its pri-maiy objective to that of recycling and reuse of recoverable materials in sohd wastes or the conversion of wastes to energy. 

Solid Waste Disposal Act, Public Law 80-272, 89tli Congress, Wasliington, DC, Oct. 20, 1965. 

J. E. McCartliy and M. Tiemann, Sunmiaries of Environmental Laws Administered by the EPA Solid Waste Disposal Act/ Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, July 15, 2000. 

Mineral Oil Hydraulic Fluids. Disposal of used mineral oil hydraulic fluids is regulated as used oil under the Solid Waste Disposal Act as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and as amended by the Used Oil Recycling Act (42 U.S.C. 6901, 6905, 6935, 6937-6939, and 6074, see 40 CFR parts 260, 261, 266, 271, and 279). Used mineral oil hydraulic fluids to be recycled are not listed as hazardous wastes and can be burned for energy recovery or recycled. In general, the newer mineral oil hydraulic fluids (including water-in-oil emulsion fluids) do not contain known chemicals or other materials that are listed in 40 CFR 261 (RCRA) and can be burned for energy recovery or recycled. However, this may not apply to some of the older hydraulic fluids, particularly those containing PCBs. 

Any hazardous chemical or chemical waste listed or having characteristics identified by the Resource Conservation Recovery Act, with the exception of those snspended by Congress nnder the Solid Waste Disposal Act... 

About 80 percent of all municipal solid waste was disposed of in open dumps until 1970, when amendments to the 1965 Solid Waste Disposal Act discouraged and, in some cases, outlawed the practice. An important objective of those amendments was to encourage communities to make use of landfills, rather than dumps, for their waste disposal programs. 

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act The Solid Waste Disposal Act The Toxic Substances Control Act, and The Transportation Safety Act... 

Clean Air Act and its amendments in 1970, 1977, and 1990 1967 Air Quality Standards and National Air Pollution Acts and 1970 National Environmental Policy Act) (2) better waste disposal practices (1965 Solid Waste Disposal Act 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) (see Wastes, industrial Waste treatment, hazardous wastes) (S) reduced noise levels (1972 Noise Control Act) (4) improved control of the manufacture and use of toxic materials (1976 Toxic Substances Control Act) and (5) assignment of responsibility to manufacturers for product safety (1972 Consumer Product Safety Act) (15,16). 

RCRA (1976). Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Solid Waste Disposal Act, Public Law 89-272 (October 20, 1965), 79 Stat 997, as amended by Public Law 94-580 (October 21,1976), 90 Stat 2795 et seq. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington). 

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 1976 RCRA is the primary statute governing the regulation of solid and hazardous waste. It completely replaced the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965 and supplemented the Resource Recovery Act of 1970 RCRA itself was substantially amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 (HSWA). The principal objectives of RCRA as amended are to ... 

Tlie Solid Waste Disposal Act was passed in 1965 to address die problem of what to do with the increasing amomits of solid wastes being generated. It was designed to ... 

RCRA has been amended nine times since its initial establishment in 1976. The most significant sets of amendments occurred in 1980. 1984. and 1992. As a result of the Solid Waste Disposal Act Amendments of I9H0 ... 

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